Letter: Port district includes only part of Brevard

1:06 PM,
Oct. 14, 2013

Written by

John Byron
Cocoa Beach

The writer of Monday's letter, "Why can't port profits help county, schools?" is dead wrong that the district is for all of Brevard County.

The port district is limited by law to that part of Brevard County from the Pineda Causeway north to the county line. If you don't find a place to vote for port commissioners on your ballot, you're not in the district. This is by choice. As one of the port commissioners recently noted, those parts of the county south of this line were asked to be part of the district when it was formed in the 1950s but rejected this opportunity.